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By Daniel Callahan. 255 pp. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1993. $21. ISBN 0-671-60830-9.

Daniel Callahan is well known for his support of age-based rationing of health care resources, a position that has sparked public and professional debate on how best to spend limited health care dollars. In this new book, he cuts through the policy arguments on rationing to what I believe is the problem at the heart of this controversy: our failure as a society to come to terms with the reality of death and the finite place of people in nature. He argues that we are a nation obsessed with trying to control and defeat the chaotic forces of nature; that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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